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Thanks! You'll be receiving an email from me soon. Checked for "gluten?" Wow. But I do understand people have no idea! The coordinator is going to try to get a 504 meeting set up this week, so I'll need all the advice I can get! I'm meeting with the teacher today to look over his gluten-free snack drawer to make sure everything in there is okay for him...

The school actually offers gluten-free lunches. They gave me the print out with the list of ingredients. They come in completely separate containers and are kept in a separate location. The cafeteria manager is the only person who handles these foods. They have another child with Celiac, and I assume the parents requested the accommodation. They called me...

As Greeniebeanie says, keep pushing. I took my son to the doctor for 7 months. He kept getting sent home for GI issues and had other things. I never thought of celiac, but I knew something was wrong. It was aggravating to have doctors keep telling me it was a virus and kids get them. They completely disregarded me and put me in the 'crazy parent' camp. Eventually...

Thanks everyone. I'm going to request a 504 plan as soon as possible. Honestly, I started the year sending only stuff from home, but his teacher asked for a gluten free list to give the parents, so I gave her one. Things have been okay until the holidays. We're only a year in, so I'm still learning. This was a hard lesson to learn made more painful for my...

Thanks everyone. Your advice has been helpful. He does have a safe snack drawer, which I'm going to request to see. Part of the problem is sometimes ingredients change. For instance, the holiday M&Ms they used at the party were made with gluten. Had I not been there, he would've eaten them because they're on the safe list. The nurse, teacher, and cafeteria...

My son is in kindergarten and parents bring snacks daily. I've given a list of things he can eat, but with ingredient changes and different types, it's hard to know if he's getting gluten. Over the holidays, he was given a twizzler and some hot cocoa because they thought they were gluten-free. They were not. We spent an entire day in ER after he had stomach...